Living in Diversity

Monday 2 May 2016, 20 hrs

Location: Spui 25 , Amsterdam

Living in Diversity

A lecture by Kenan Malik

Over the past century, mass immigration has transformed European societies. Over the past year the migration crisis has threatened to tear the European Union apart. Both the mass migration of the past century and the migration crisis of today raise profound questions about what it means to be European and about what constitutes European values. They raise also profound questions about the relationship between difference and commonalities in a modern, liberal society. How is it possible, if at all, to make societies more inclusive, and accept different conceptions of the good, while also establishing a strong common moral framework? In this talk Kenan Malik asks what it means, both for social policy and individual action, to live in diversity.

The lecture will be followed by a panel discussion with representatives of Castrum Peregrini’s board of recommendation Avraham (Avrum) Burg, author and former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and Marjan Schwegman, historian and former director NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

The evening is organised on the occasion of the launch of the Gisèle House, where past and present courageous people of civil engagement in art and culture will be commemorated and that wants to contribute to a more inclusive society.